ART IN AMERICA 3.24.2017 In a storefront turned free cafe, deadpan trickster, Fran Ilich, challenges me to a mysterious ancient Mayan board game upon which he has based his utopian plans for an elaborate gift economy. I lose.

ART IN AMERICA 1.27.2017 Weeks before Trump is even sworn in, the fascists have already sharpened their knives and taken aim at a statue of Leonard Peltier, causing the statue’s removal from public display in Washington, D.C.

ART IN AMERICA 9.26.2016 A review of an exhibition by one of my current art heroes, the cofounder of San Juan’s Beta Local, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz.

ART IN AMERICA 6.27.2016 After Philly closes a public school in a poor part of town as part of neoliberal austerity measures, an artist and a small group of elementary school students heroically band together to recreate the school offsite.

ART IN AMERICA 3.08.2016 The USC 7, the end of the MFA, and a preview of a current effort by young artists to recreate the magic of the original Black Mountain School on the hallowed school’s original North Carolina location.

HUCK 1.08.2015 After The Strokes frontman stands me up for our date, arriving HOURS late, I get pissy and make him talk about The Coming Insurrection for the entire interview. “While we expect no less than towering excess from rockstars, nothing generates more excess than a rockstar who longs to be taken seriously."

SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN 10.02.2012 The death of the classic American urban artist neighborhood and a rumination on Wojnarowicz’s ability to channel anger and abuse into artistic triumphs in this review of C. Carr’s essential Wojnarowicz bio.